US parks at risk -- the 25 most imperiled

Kurt Repanshek in National Parks Traveler: Another report on climate change and its impacts on national parks arrived Thursday, with a list of 25 parks most at risk. While it offered no real new recommendations beyond those that have been called for by previous reports, the authors of National Parks In Peril, The Threats of Climate Disruption voiced optimism that corporate America is becoming more concerned about climate change and would become a force in addressing the problem and its impacts. …The 25 most-threatened by parks, according to National Parks in Peril are:

• Acadia National Park,
• Assateague Island National Seashore
• Bandelier National Monument
• Biscayne National Park
• Cape Hatteras National Seashore
• Colonial National Historical Park
• Denali National Park and Preserve
• Dry Tortugas National Park
• Ellis Island National Monument
• Everglades National Park
• Glacier National Park
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
• Joshua Tree National Park
• Lake Mead National Recreation
• Mesa Verde National Park
• Mount Rainier National Park
• Padre Island National Seashore
• Rocky Mountain National Park
• Saguaro National Park
• Theodore Roosevelt National Park
• Virgin Islands National Park/Virgin Islands
• Coral Reef National Monument
• Yellowstone National Park
• Yosemite National Park
• Zion National Park

Zion Canyon at sunset in Zion National Park as seen from Angels Landing looking south. Shot by Diliff, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License